Everything was dark and blurred. Grey faces streaked and swirled around me, expressions of horror with curling lips and tearful eyes burning in my mind. My body was in anguish, I could feel it screaming and tearing in different directions, whatever that vampire had done to me, was hell. I saw skin being peeled off faces of children, their skin blistering and swelling with pus and their eyes bubbling with blood. I screamed at the sight but nothing came out of my mouth. Their hairs burned to a stubble and into their skull, pores shriveling and blackening rapidly.
Why is this happening!? What did she do to me?! I, can I be doing this to these people?
The burning sensation, the one I have lived with since the moment I became aware of myself was dying. It was dying away differently than when I almost suffocated in the hole Jake trapped me in. This wasn't me dying for real, this was my fire dying. I was burning out, I was blazing too much, losing too much energy.
Fear washed through me, cold and as painful as water drenching me. How could this happen! I was a fire elemental all my life, could it even be possible for me to lose my fire without losing my life?
I felt my body shrinking, I had burnt so much I was towering over the grey blur that was the ground, and it rushed toward me. The impact slammed my face down, grit stung my face as dirt and rubble embedded within my skin. My skin.
The pain knocked me senseless, and I laid there with pain aching every muscle in my body. I tried raising my head , and through wisps of red hair I saw the sky filled with stars looming over me. The vampiress floated above me cackling gleefully, strumming on that axe she carried wherever she please. The noted fell dully on my ears, but then her voice began the ring into the air.
Sad little flame queen
Where is your crown now
If it once was on your head
It's no where to be found
You built your kingdom
On the tears of your unrest
Sad little flame queen
You aren't royal to me
You don't have any fire
Look at your hands
Can't you see
Sad little flame queen
Sad little flame queen
Now what's left for you
You burnt down all of Ooo
You aren't of fire
You're what Finn once was
Sad little human
Each word that escaped her lips, brought on internal pain to add to my outer shell's torment. Tears, something new and stinging worse than Finn's ever did back when my body burned bright for him and only him.
"What did you do this?"
"Didn't I just sing it to you doll, or would you like me to do an encore?" She landed in front of me, nothing but her toe-scuffed red boots in my plane of vision.
"No, no more." I gagged, and coughed violently, dirt expelling with saliva.
"Now if you don't mind, I'll just be going." her voice reeked with cynical humor and her boots turned sharply on her heel.
"Don't leave me…" My throat rasped weakly, everything was limp, I couldn't even crawl I was sure.
She laughed, "Oh I won't be leaving Ooo just yet. I haven't made you pay far enough."
With heavy eyelids, I watched her shoes disappear from sight, leaving me staring at grey dirt, rocks, and strange red strands of hair.
"I can't die like this, not to that stupid vampire, I am a Queen. I don't care what she says, I may not have fire now m=but there must be a way to get it back. That's my throne to rule." I thought angrily to myself staring more intensely at the dirt.
My lungs heaved from the stress of breathing through them, my skin screamed like freshly peeled scabs, and the sensitivity of my eyes to color burned. Those boots hurt my eyes, the dull grey was almost soothing now.
"It's okay," I told myself, "My brothers and cousins will come for me. They have to, they must know I'm alive."
I grunted and tried to lift myself. Everything fell beneath me. There would be no moving.
Slowly it dawned on me, if I was human, and these were the first time I could use muscles, what do I do, just wait for them to get stronger?
So I did. No one came until I was deep in a dark state of sleep.
